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Polish Studies in Culture, Nations and Politics Edited by Joanna Kurczewska & Yasuko Shibata Vol polish 3()’ 187 14 sociological review ISSN 1231 – 1413 Polish Studies in Culture, Nations and Politics Edited by Joanna Kurczewska & Yasuko Shibata vol. 4 Yasuko Shibata, Discrimination for the Sake of the Nation. The Discourse of the League of Polish Families against “Others” 2001–2007 Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 310. ISBN 978-3-631-64132-3 (Print), E-ISBN 978-3-653-03088-4 (E-Book) Discrimination for the Sake of the Nation. The Discourse of the League of Polish Families against “Others” 2001–2007 written by Yasuko Shibata is the fourth volume of Polish Studies in Culture, Nations and Politics, a Peter Lang series that aims at publishing monographs and collections of articles dedicated to selected topics from the fields of sociology, political sciences and history. This publication is an example of the interdisciplinary Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) study, a type of the research that constitutes a very popular current in the broadly defined social sciences. It also fills the gap in the literature on the role of discriminatory and national discourses in Polish politics. Since the League of Polish Families [ Liga Polskich Rodzin (LPR)] there has been no Polish prominent political actor that would explicitly and successfully use the former category of discourse. This success, however, had its limits: LPR, the Polish far-right political party formed in April 2001 as a merger of several factions and political communities that were invoking the legacy of the National Democracy (ND), never played a key role in the Polish politics. The period between 2001 and 2007, however, was the time during which the party managed to enter twice, (2001 and 2005) the Parliament of Poland acquiring, respectively, 7,87% (36 candidates in the Sejm and 2 in the Senat) and 7,97% (34 candidates in the Sejm and 7 in the Senat) of the votes cast. Apart from a modest success in local elections of 2002 and 2006, the party also formed a coalition government with Law and Justice (PiS) and Self- Defence (Samoobrona). Roman Giertych, the then chairman of LPR, was appointed Minister of Education and Vice Minister, that he held until the breaking up of the coalition on August 13, 2007. However, the biggest electoral success, that took many commentators by surprise, were the results of the first European elections in which Poland took part: 10 candidates who had started from LPR’s lists became members of the European Parliament (2nd place in the country with 15,92% of the votes cast). 420 BOOK REVIEWS The material for the Discrimination for the Sake of the Nation comes from the briefly described period between 2001 (first case studies come from April) and 2007 (last text comes from March). The former date is the year in which LPR was formed whereas 2007 marks the beginning of its political marginalization. The research period is divided by the middle point of June 2004, the date of the first Polish elections to the European Parliament. The role of this division is very important from the point of view of the party’s discursive evolution: the electoral success forced LPR, at least to some extent, to adjust its language and ideological proposals to the context of the mainstream European politics. In that respect the Polish right-wing party did something that other successors of ND could not: it abandoned the anti-systemic slogans and became a part of the Polish political establishment (p. 115). The case study chosen by Yasuko Shibata has already been analyzed from several theoretical perspectives. LPR has appeared in numerous, mostly Polish, studies: as an example of a eurosceptical far right party (Michael Minkenberg’s and Pascal Perrineau’s “The Radical Right in the European Elections 2004” and Ewa Nalewajko’s “Eurosceptyczne partie i ich liderzy w publicznej debacie o integracji prowadzonej w latach 2000–2003” [“Euroskeptical Parties and Their Leaders in the Public Debate on Integration in the Years 2000–2003”] articles ), as one of the political actors promoting antifeminist and anti-LGBT attitudes (Agnieszka Graff’s article “We Are (Not All) Homophobes: A Report from Poland”). One can also name several articles dedicated to post-electoral (e.g. Frances Millard’s “Poland’s Politics and the Travails of Transition after 2001: The 2005 Elections”) and media (Rafał Miernik’s “Liga Polskich Rodzin—prawica polskiej sceny politycznej” [The League of Polish Families—the Right-wing of the Polish Political Scene]”) analyses. All publications have one feature in common: they are not dedicated specifically to LPR treating its activity as a part of a larger picture. Probably the only exception is the book written by Aleksandra Moroska Prawicowy populizm a eurosceptycyzm (na przykładzie Listy Pima Fortuyna w Holandii i Ligi Polskich Rodzin w Polsce) [Right-Wing Populism and Euroscepticism (on the example of List Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands and League of Polish Families in Poland)] in which the party in question functions, together with the second case study, Dutch Pim Fortuyn List, as a basis for comparative analysis of the ways in which two right-wing factions use populism and euroscepticism as mobilization techniques. This approach necessitates the embedding of the party in Polish historical and socio- political contexts. The former task, similarly as in other works that dealt with LPR, is limited to a brief description of tradition to which the party is referring and does not play a decisive role in the conclusions. The author of Discrimination for the Sake of the Nation asks slightly different ques- tions about the activity of LPR. It is very visible in the book’s structure. First chapter entitled “The Discourse of Discrimination against the Nations Strangers: Tools for Interpretation” is dedicated to the methodology used in the study, in the second (“Historical Contexts of the LPR Discourse”) and third (“Political and Ideological Contexts of the LPR Discourse”) the author discusses historical, political and ideo- logical contexts of the LPR’s discourse. In fourth (“The LPR’s Racist and Xenophobic Discourse: Cases and Studies”), fifth (“The LPR’s Homophobic Discourse: Cases and BOOK REVIEWS 421 Studies”) and sixth (“The LPR’s Gendered Discourse: Cases and Studies”) chapters the author presents and analyzes specific variants, each of them on a separate series of case studies, of LPR’s discriminatory discourse. The book is concluded by a very convincing synthesis (“Conclusions: General Answers”) and speculations on the fu- ture of LPR politicians and the possibility of actualization of their discursive practices (“Conclusions: Six Years After the Decline of the LPR”). The general aim of the book is, therefore, to identify characteristics of LPR discriminatory discourse against ethnic and national minorities, homosexuals, and women, groups that were, with a few exceptions in some cases, positioned in the analyzed texts as “others.” The author focuses in her research on numerous case studies—texts created by politicians of LPR and individuals associated with its youth organization. Texts analyzed in the chapters dedicated to the specific discourses (or sub-discourses, if we follow the inner logic of the study) represent different language registers and genres. The empirical material comprises, among others, LPR’s election brochures, parliamentary questions, media interviews, public speeches, press articles, amendments and blog entries. The aim of the author is, therefore, to demonstrate that discriminatory discourse practices occurred on different levels of communication. Chosen examples are very interesting. It would be, however, very helpful to know more about the rules according to which the texts for the in-depth analyses were selected from a big corpus. This minor objection does not change the fact that the text analyses are embed- ded in thoroughly defined theoretical and methodological frameworks. The author combines CDA with the “critique of fantasy” [krytyka fantazmatyczna] elaborated by Maria Janion. The research is primarily based on one of the currents of the former method, namely Discourse Historical Approach whose most prominent proponent is Ruth Wodak. The method is consequently implemented throughout the whole study, which is especially demonstrable in the chapters dedicated to the analysis of particular discourses. In order to characterize the way in which social actors are presented in the texts the author uses, among others, categories of foregrounding/backgrounding, suppression, role allocation and impersonalization (for example of backgrounding see pp. 256–257). Very important in the study are also metaphors used to present the “self” and “other” or, in other words, the labelling of social actors in the texts produced by the members or sympathizers of LPR. Another element of the analysis is the identification of specific topoi that are used in the discourse in order to strengthen the arguments. The author indicates many examples of this rhetoric category the most recurring of which is probably the topos of “threat/danger” which is activated in several discursive contexts, e.g., as a rhetorical argument that sustains: the thesis according to which the tolerance of ethnic minorities could lead to the destabilization of Poland (p. 148), the necessity of defense against undefined “Jewish forces” (pp. 154–155; usually in such cases the texts refer also to the “ideological fantasy of Jewish world conspiracy”) and the theory about the danger posed to the catholic morality by the “revolutionary” feminist groups (p. 268). 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